And she hasn’t fallen for some white-suited colonialist, but rather the broadly handsome Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier billeted in her town after Liberation. Determined to slip the bonds tying her to bourgeois France, Mathilde bets all on an exotic life in Meknes. And not really so much a farm as a windowless, tin-roofed shack in the middle of nowhere. Amine’s one sustenance through years of fighting and as a POW was this farm, bought by his father. Even Mathilde and Amine find themselves bewildered by each other’s expectations of marriage.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2021 10:30 UTC